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Sailboats return in the waning light of a late October evening. A waxing crescent moon hangs brightly in the sky.

MIT’s 148th Commencement was on Friday, June 6. Over 2,700 students graduated, receiving over 3,400 degrees.

MIT President L. Rafael Reif, along with Provost Martin A. Schmidt PhD ’88, Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart PhD ’88, and members of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity complete the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on Aug. 22.

Tuft’s JumboRass dances to a blend of traditional Gujarati garb music and modern beats.

MIT’s Graduate Student Bollywood Dance Team performs at Diwali Night.

MIT Chamak, a female South Asian fusion dance team, kneels in darkness during a set filled with otherwise upbeat moments.

A dancer performs the Kaliya Nartana dance, which demonstrated the story of how Lord Krishna conquered the poisonous serpent Kaliya and danced on its head.

A member of the MIT Ohms sings during the show.

MIT Bhangra performs a high-energy Punjabi folk dance.

Concertgoers rocked to Nas at the 2014 Boston Calling music festival on Sunday night.

MIT President L. Rafael Reif, along with Provost Martin A. Schmidt PhD ’88, Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart PhD ’88, and members of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity completed the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge last Friday. Reif w...

Google staff demonstrated Google Glass to invited guests and press at the unveiling of Google’s expanded campus in Kendall Square on Tuesday, Aug. 5. The new construction took two years to complete after a controversi...

East Campus’s roller coaster under construction for this weekend’s REX.

Freshmen Pre-Orientation Programs (FPOP) started this week. Here, members of the Class of 2018 created their own putty and learned about biomaterials and polymers at the Department of Material Science and Engineering.

Anika Gupta, President of the Class of 2014, and President Reif take a selfie during the presentation of the class gift.

MIT’s 148th Commencement was Friday, June 6. Over 2,700 students graduated, receiving over 3,400 degrees. Some students decorated their caps.

Graduates flip their class rings during the ceremony as a part of MIT tradition.

MIT’s 148th Commencement was on Friday, June 6. Over 2,700 students graduated, receiving over 3,400 degrees.

A soon-to-be graduate marches into Killian Court.

President Reif presents a diploma to Sidhanth Rao, President of the UA.

David Mahor, the Mayor of the City of Cambridge, announced last Friday at the ceremony of remembrance that the corner of Main and Vassar Streets shall be designated as “M.I.T. Police Officer Sean A. Collier Square.” A...

Associate Professor Hugh Herr from the Biomechatronics group at MIT’s Media Lab demonstrated his research into bionic limbs to the press on Friday, April 18. His research restored Adrianne Haslet-Davis’s ability to da...

Elizabeth A. Warren, United States Senator (D-MA), delivered remarks at the ceremony of remembrance for Officer Sean A. Collier last Friday, April 18 in MIT’s North Court.

Dan Oliver, a member of the MIT Strong marathon team, unveiled signs that mark the distance of the Boston Marathon in Smoots‚ 24.8 KiloSmoots, to be exact. The MIT Strong marathon team was recognized on stage during a...

MIT Strong Boston Marathon team member Thomas Brand shortly after the 10K checkpoint in Framingham. The MIT Strong team ran the Boston Marathon on Monday in honor of MIT Police Officer Sean A. Collier, who died one ye...

The MIT Police and Cambridge Police Joint Honor Guard presented the flags at the ceremony of remembrance for Officer Sean A. Collier held last Friday in MIT’s North Court.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel delivered the keynote address for the Center for Advanced Urbanism’s Scaling Infrastructure conference at the Media Lab on Thursday, April 10.

MIT police officer Kevin O’Connor paid tribute to fellow officer Sean Collier in front of Building 32 on Friday, April 19, 2013. Collier was killed near this location the previous night by the Marathon bombing suspects.

The Green Building at MIT was lit in tribute to MIT police officer Sean Collier on the night of April 19, 2013.

Bursts of confetti over the heads of the large audience marked the conclusion of the final presentations for 2.009, Product Engineering Process.

Kresge Auditorium’s windows were decorated in the colors of the teams participating in the presentations

Professor David R. Wallace, the lead teacher for 2.009, was the master of ceremonies for the final presentations which took place in a packed Kresge Auditorium.

Team Purple created a product which prevents equine leg injuries. For their product demo, they brought in “Pinky,” the horse which they had worked with during the semester.

Green Team demoed “Poseidon,” a device which projected a green dot on the bottom of any swimming pool to help swimmers keep up with their target pace.

Professor David R. Wallace was recognized by his students at the end of the 2.009 final presentations.

MIT students, faculty, and staff participated in the second performance of UP: The Umbrella Project on Sunday, May 19. Each umbrella was outfitted with red, green, and blue LED lights that participants could control. ...

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Hackers placed the MIT Police badge on the façade of Building 10 in memory of Officer Sean Collier.

Hackers hung a banner inside Lobby 7 in memory of fallen MIT police officer Sean Collier.

The Green Building at MIT was lit in tribute to MIT police officer Sean Collier on the night of April 19, 2013.

A large sign from the women of McCormick Hall joins many others at MIT Police Headquarters in thanking and remembering Officer Collier.

A makeshift memorial to MIT Police Officer Sean Collier was erected by a steady stream of visitors in front of Building 32 on Friday, April 19, 2013.

A sign for Officer Collier adorns the window of the MIT Police Headquarters on Vassar Street.

A steady stream of visitors paid tribute to MIT police officer Sean Collier in front of Building 32 on Saturday April 20. Collier was slain near this location on April 18 in his police cruiser.

Hackers placed the MIT Police badge on both the shoulder and chest of The Alchemist on April 22, 2013 in memory of Sean Collier.

MIT police officer Kevin O’Connor paid tribute to fellow officer Sean Collier in front of Building 32 on Friday, April 19, 2013. Collier was killed near this location the previous night by the Marathon bombing suspects.

Messages and gifts of thanks and in remembrance of slain MIT police officer Sean A. Collier were displayed at the lobby of MIT Police headquarters.

Messages and gifts of thanks and in remembrance of slain MIT police officer Sean A. Collier were displayed at the lobby of MIT Police headquarters.

Messages and gifts of thanks and in remembrance of slain MIT police officer Sean A. Collier were displayed at the lobby of MIT Police headquarters.

The Green Building at MIT was lit in tribute to slain MIT police officer Sean A. Collier on the night of Apr. 19.

A makeshift memorial to MIT police officer Sean A. Collier was erected by a steady stream of visitors in front of Building 32 on Friday, Apr. 19.

A steady stream of visitors paid tribute to MIT police officer Sean A. Collier in front of Building 32 on Friday, Apr. 19. Collier was slain near this location on Apr. 18.

A steady stream of visitors paid tribute to MIT police officer Sean A. Collier in front of Building 32 on Friday, Apr. 19. Collier was slain near this location on Apr. 18.

MIT police officer Kevin O’Connor paid tribute to fellow officer Sean A. Collier in front of Building 32 on Friday, Apr. 19. Collier was slain near this location the prior evening.

A steady stream of visitors paid tribute to MIT police officer Sean A. Collier in front of Building 32 on Friday, Apr. 19. Collier was slain near this location on Apr. 18 in his police cruiser.

“Playing the bagpipes helps me get over bad times,” John Graham ‘16 said after he played “Amazing Grace” on the banks of the Charles River, in tribute to the victims of the Boston Marathon attacks earlier that same da...

The Green Building at MIT was lit with the pattern of the American Flag on the night of April 15, 2013.

Professor Jennifer A. Lewis ’91, an MIT alumna currently doing research at Harvard, presented this spring’s Wulff Lecture, “Printing Functional Materials.” Her presentation covered advances in 3D printing technology a...

The reading room was recently reopened to students as a 24/7 study area. Along with the skylight, new efficient lighting systems were installed, as well as new paint that restores the reading room to its original colors.

Installations from the Martin Luther King Jr. Design Seminar (17.920) class, held during IAP, are up in Lobby 10. The class focused on topics such as civil rights, race, and identity. The installation will conclude on...

A foot crossing was recently opened to the public near building W59. The crossing is part of a new foot path linking Amherst Street and Vassar Street added to improve the safety of pedestrians crossing the tracks.

A Pac-Man motif was placed over the tarp on the top of the Great Dome last Thursday, Jan. 10. The lights on the scaffolding resemble pac-dots.

The scaffolding inside Barker Library’s Reading Room is being dismantled, which will reveal Barker’s newly installed skylight.

Hackers decorated Lobby 7 with a dragon and a Mayan calendar on Dec. 17, 2012. MIT’s finals week ended on the same day as the “End of the World,” according to interpretations of the Mayan calendar.

A Quest Diagnostic building in Central Square was one of many properties that have recently been sold in Cambridge, MA.

A memorial was placed on the Harvard Bridge for Joe Gage, a man who jumped into the Charles River in the early morning of New Year’s Day. A search was conducted by the Cambridge Fire Department, Boston Fire Department...

A Cambridge resident checks in at Kresge Auditorium to vote on Tuesday. In addition to the presidential and Massachusetts senate races, the ballot also contained questions regarding physician-assisted suicide and the ...

A large portion of the Kendall Square rooftop garden was fenced off as of Thursday. Part of the garden will be replaced by a two-story connector building occupied by Google. The approval process for the connector has ...